Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Jose]

On 3/30/2010 1:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:52:05AM -0400, Jose wrote:
>> P5AD2-E
>> intel centrino2
>>
>> - Intel 925XE chipset
>> - Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU
>> - Dual-Channel DDR2 533
>> - Intel PAT
>> - PCI Express Architecture
>> - Gigabit LAN
>
> The intel 925XE is one of those crap intel chipsets that can't address
> more than 4GB, so since PCI needs some of that 4GB address space, you
> can't have more than about 3.2GB available.  The max physical ram you
> can plug into the system is in fact 8GB, but you still can't use more
> than 3.2GB or so on it making that rather pointless.
>
> Newer intel chipsets eventually fixed this stupidity.
>
Mmmm, that what I thought, but did not know about the intel chipset bug.

Not meaning to kidnap the topic, What would be a good model to buy these 
days, I am also shopping for a new motherboard, and was thinking of a 
intel- core 7 or quadcore as they are becoming cheaper, any suggestions?
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